Smyrna times., 1887-05-25
Maryland Items.


Elkton is to have a Chinese laundry.
Sottcrabsare being shipped from Girls
field.
Centreville is the scene of a steam.
boat war
John r. Griffin shipped a crate of
strawberries from Ridgely station We'd
nesday.
DIR. Henry w. Houston, of East New
Market, Dorchester county, is dead,
aged II.
Millington has building boom, four
or five houses being in course of cree
ton and Others to follow.
The barn and stables on the farm of
Mrs. Harriet SaxtOn, near East New
Market, were destroyed by fire.
Wye Mill, Queen Anne's county was
bought recently by J. T. F. Brown for
$780, 1t is said to have excellent
water power.
Two men recently collected about SIS
at Cambridge under pretense Offurnish.
ing circulating library to as many SUBJ
scribers, and then they skipped out"
One of the rOgues is lame.
Yesterday a company of Baltimore
business men visited the Eastern Shore
to go over the route of the proposed
Baltimore and Eastern Shore railroad
from st. Michael's to Salisbury.
Great blocks of ice, from s to 10 feet
square, still meet the eyes of passengers
on the Columbia & Port Deposit rail-
road at Pequa and Safe Harbor, rem
nants of the ice gOrge.-CeciI Star.
The ladies of the Mite Society of Mil
lington NJ. E. Church will hold straw.
berry festival June 2ud, 3rd and 4th on
the Church Green. An abundant sun
ply of good things will be furnished.
Members of the bar at Easton, Md.
signed memorial asking the appoint
ment of Judge Robinson, of Queens
Anne's county, as the successor of JUS
tice Woods in the United States Supreme
Court
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Fannie L. Rowe, daughter
of Rev. r. 8. Rowe, who is we'll known
here, and Edward H. Shelley. at Wash
ingtOn Street NJ. P. Church, Baltimore,
on Wednesday evening, June 1st.
There is considerable talk in Cam
bridge at present over the conviction of
Carey and Hart for violating the local
option law, and already petitions are
circulating praying the governor to par
don them. Beware of book agents in the
future.
4 Drought IN WicOmico.-No rain
has fallen here for nearly three weeks
in consequence of which the strawberry
crop has been greatly injured. Several
growers say that if the drought lasts
much longer there will not be half croI
in WicOmicO county.
On May 3Oth the Kent County Agri
cultural Association will hold a specia
meeting, to take up for consideration
the question of issuing $250O more o
stock, for the purpose of erecting a new
nall and grand stand at the Kent county
fair grounds. The Kent county associa
ton is the oldest on the Peninsula thai
holds an annual fair.
The peach growers of the neighbor
hood of Ridgely, Caroline county, Md.
want a fruit exchange at that station
They are the first since the convention
at Dover to make application to tn
Delaware Fruit Exchange for authOTit,
and instruction to organize branch Oi
flee, but their example will probably b
followed by other communities of tht
Peninsula.
1t is estimated that $4,000 quarts {
+ Strawberries will be shipped in an
= around Smithville, a small village i
t the eastern part of Caroline count,
5 aud quite remote from the railroad
while John r. Griffin, of TuckahC
# Neck, perhaps the largest fruit grove
# in that coanty, expects himself to
:, able to pick at least 10000 quart
:. Jacob Alice, his neighbOr, will perhaI
4 grow nearly as many more. The ear
/ berries are of the HythrOp variety.
The proposition which has been di
; cussed in the newspapers of cOnsolid
, ting the dioceses Of EastOn aud Del
- ware into one diocese meets with We
= little favor in either diocese, aud it
of improbable that the proposition will
.. made in either the Delaware or East'
conventions, which will be in session
the same time.
i'll In connection with the bishOpric
h. Easton the name of the Rev. /. NevC
ld Steele. now in charge of a parish
y. Wappingley Falls, N. Y, is freely use
n and it is possible that he will be
n next bishop. He Isl son of Mr.. l. Ne
EFT Steele, the distinguished lawyer
,c. Baltimore, and is of Eastern Shore
L cestry, the Steels being from Dorches
ch county.
re- Preachers Meeting.-The EastOn l
at triet Preachers Association Ofthe Me
all odist Episcopal Church met at Trap
Ik- Talbot county, May 16, II, Is, 1887.
Rev. r. H. Adams preached on Tu
NV. day night.
ort On tuesday, 18th Rev. John Fra
'Iiv occupied the chair and the follow
on members were present: Revs. Frar
ia Adams, A. p. Pretyman. e. p. Robe
"a W.R. Mowbray, w. w. w. Wills
fire Geo. f. Wood, Stephenson, ROop
Hutchin.
Rev. K. H. Adams is vice preside
her W. II. Hutchin, secretary end treasu
ark Reys. r. II. Adams, Geo. w. Tow
:ide end add Robt. X. Stephenson, curat
by All the members pTesentrepOrted
oH0 condition OF the WORK Oh 1u0N Oi'l
her In the afternoon session the Presi'
half Elder read a paper on Easton Dis
and its possibilities" The paper
- viewed, in part, the minutes OF the
.eia- nual Conference of March, 1887,
NOT, revealed many instances OF inju
Will done to the district in the incorrec
end ures of the statistical tables-an II
cars tice made permanent by record.
day On Tuesday night Rev. G. VITO
e.s end preached.
o 10 Wednesday was given to discus